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...sensed his opportunity in Khrushchev's second, resounding de-Stalinization speech in 1961. Unearthing One Day and departing for Moscow, he embarked on a series of masterly intrigues designed to interest Khrushchev in publishing his harrowing tale of the Stalinist camps. Exactly one year later his scheme succeeded; ultimately, the novel was published in editions totaling 921,000 copies, encouraging many Soviet citizens to expect and even to demand punishment of officials still in power who had shared in Stalin's crimes...
...government in Belgrade staunchly backed Soviet foreign policy, installed a Stalinist regime at home and refused Marshall Plan aid offered by the U.S. But behind the scenes, Stalin and Tito feuded bitterly over Tito's determination to maintain his independence. On June 28, 1948, the world was startled by the announcement that Yugoslavia had been expelled from the new international Communist organization, the Cominform...
...widespread looting by Soviet troops, and even of gunfights involving Cabinet members in the government of national unity named by the U.S.S.R.'s puppet strongman, Babrak Karmal. The wildest story was that Karmal had been deposed in favor of former Secret Police Chief Assadullah Sarwari, a hard-line Stalinist...
...chilling letter sent to his second wife in 1937, Trotsky described an early attempt to assassinate him. He wrote that the wife of a pro-Stalinist official named Vishniak, who "hated the official line and showed sympathy to me personally," had warned him that Stalin wanted to finish him off "accidentally." The accident actually took place on the anniversary of the October revolution in 1927 when shots aimed at Trotsky's car missed their target and killed a militiaman...
...years Harvard had stored the papers in their end of a bargain with the Russian revolutionary leader who wanted to protect his friends and colleagues from Stalinist reprisals that claimed Trotsky's life...